Don't You Just Hate it When That Happens?

TPM indulges in a moment of sour amusement at the thought that our rigorously vetted and highly trained overseas diplomats find themselves reduced to writing about Botox. I can't say they're wrong, but isn't that in the nature of things? Who was it who said that if you stay up with somebody until three o'clock in the morning you hear lots that is boring but once in a while you hear some really incredible stuff. And the mark of skill in any craft is the power to sustain the drudgery that it entails. Ah, Botox..